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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119210
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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288522
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502754
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415064
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986036
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How much does immigration boost innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor);  … - 2009
immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793955
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Why don't women patent?
Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - 2012
scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629780
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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418916
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The value of hiring through referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740343